
Before he co-founded Seeq, Steve Sliwa learned to outwait NASA bureaucracy, led an aviation university, and helped grow a drone company. His career keeps returning to a practical question: what lets capable people get on with the work?

Across four decades, the Seeq co-founder has pursued one stubborn idea: the machines already know plenty. The useful work begins when people can finally ask them better questions.

The chemical engineer who once ran high-pressure experiments now leads Seeq with a stubbornly human idea: industrial AI matters only when it helps the people who understand the plant make a better decision.

Her career began with a summer internship and grew across seven versions of Windows, five cities, an agency, and an industrial AI company. The connecting idea is wonderfully unglamorous: remove friction so smart people can do useful work.